Crystal Maiden stats, abilities and strategy
Unleashes a high damage blizzard upon her foes
Able to keep her allies supplied with mana as she slows down enemies to ensure a kill, Crystal Maiden is a helpful addition to any team. And, when the opportunity arises, she can unleash her massive ultimate ability to devastate her foes.
Win Rate 49.5%
Pick Rate 10.7%
Attributes
494 +48.4/lvl
291 +39.6/lvl
17 +2.2/lvl
16 +1.8/lvl
18 +3.3/lvl
Stats
Damage:
48 - 54 + 3.3/level (157 - 163 at level 30)
Range:
600
Armor:
2.7 + 0.3/level (13.7 at level 30)
Movement:
280
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.38
- Removed Frozen Expanse and Cold Comfort Facets
Facets
Glacial Guard
Win Rate: 50.1%
Pick Rate: 80.7%
Crystal Nova has increased radius and grants allied heroes a physical damage barrier. Barrier is increased for Crystal Maiden.
Patch 7.38
- Crystal Nova: Increases radius by 100 and grants allied heroes in the affected area a 40/70/100/130 physical barrier for 4s. Crystal Maiden receives double the barrier
Arcane Overflow
Win Rate: 47.1%
Pick Rate: 19.3%
Activating Arcane Aura temporarily increases Crystal Maiden's spell amplification and mana costs. During the duration, Crystal Maiden restores her allies' Mana when casting spells.
Patch 7.38
- Arcane Aura: Arcane Aura can be activated to temporarily provide Crystal Maiden with 35% Spell Amplification, but increasing Mana Costs of her abilities by 50%. While active, any time Crystal Maiden uses her other abilities, allied heroes within 1200 radius receive 25% of the mana spent. Duration: 10s. No Mana Cost. Cooldown: 30s
- Arcane Aura: The ability duration is paused during the Freezing Field. Can't be cast during the Ultimate with Aghanim's Scepter, but still has full effect
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Crystal Maiden has %mana_regen_multiplier%% Mana Regeneration Amplification.
Patch 7.38
- Now levels up with Freezing Field
- Mana Regen Amplification rescaled from 50% to 25/50/75/100%
Crystal Nova
AFFECTS: Area
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
A burst of damaging frost slows enemy movement in the targeted area.
Crystal Nova provides vision in the targeted area for the duration.
RADIUS: 425
MOVEMENT SLOW: 20% / 30% / 40% / 50%
ATTACK SLOW: 30 / 45 / 60 / 75
SLOW DURATION: 4
DAMAGE: 110 / 160 / 210 / 260
PHYSICAL BARRIER AMOUNT: 0
SELF PHYSICAL BARRIER AMOUNT: 0
BARRIER DURATION: 0
11 / 10 / 9 / 8
700
FACET: Glacial Guard
Crystal Nova has increased radius and grants allied heroes a physical damage barrier. Barrier is increased for Crystal Maiden.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +300 Crystal Nova Damage
LEVEL 15 TALENT: -4.5s Crystal Nova Cooldown
Patch 7.38
- Slow Duration decreased from 5s to 4s
The air temperature around Rylai drops rapidly, chilling all around her to the core.
Frostbite
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Encases an enemy unit in ice, prohibiting movement and attack, while dealing damage over time. Deals 4x damage to non-ancient creeps.
Frostbite is considered a root.
DAMAGE PER SECOND: 100
DURATION: 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3
9 / 8 / 7 / 6
600
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +1s Frostbite Duration
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +100 Frostbite Cast Range
Rylai channels winds from the Blueheart Glacier, imprisoning attackers in thick blocks of ice.
Arcane Aura
ABILITY: Passive
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
Gives additional mana regeneration to all friendly units on the map. Allies within a 1200 radius of Crystal Maiden receive 3x the mana regeneration.
With Arcane Overflow and Aghanim's Scepter, cannot be activated while channeling Freezing Field.
MANA REGEN: 0.4 / 0.6 / 0.8 / 1
CLOSE MANA REGEN: 1.2 / 1.8 / 2.4 / 3
RADIUS: 1200
SPELL AMP: 0%
MANA COST INCREASE: 0%
MANA GRANT RADIUS: 0
MANA SPENT GRANTED: 0%
DURATION: 0
COOLDOWN: 0
FACET: Arcane Overflow
Activating Arcane Aura temporarily increases Crystal Maiden's spell amplification and mana costs. During the duration, Crystal Maiden restores her allies' Mana when casting spells. Does not affect items. Duration is paused while channeling Freezing Field.
Cold temperatures promote the essence of magic, causing Rylai's presence to allow spell usage in abundance.
Freezing Field
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
CHANNELED - Surrounds Crystal Maiden with 100 random icy explosions that slow enemies and deal massive damage. Lasts %abilitychanneltime% seconds.
The slow is applied on all enemies in the radius, even if they aren't hit by an explosion (lasts 1 second).
Explosions occur every 0.1 seconds.
Break disables the passive effects of Frozen Expanse.
RADIUS: 810
EXPLOSION RADIUS: 320
MOVEMENT SLOW: -40%
ATTACK SLOW: 80 / 120 / 160
DAMAGE: 105 / 170 / 250
CAST RANGE BONUS:
AOE BONUS: %
100 / 95 / 90
FACET: Frozen Expanse
Freezing Field also passively increases Crystal Maiden's cast range and area of effect.
Aghanim's Scepter
Allows you to move, cast and attack during Freezing Field. Can still be interrupted by enemies. You move %shard_self_movement_speed_slow_pct%% slower during this. Increases total number of explosions by %shard_bonus_explosion%%. Applies Frostbite to any unit that has been standing in the Freezing Field for over %frostbite_delay%s.
CAST RANGE BONUS:
AOE BONUS: %
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +50 Freezing Field Damage
Once the place of her exile, Icewrack has become an anchor for Rylai's frigid onslaught.
Stop Freezing Field
PASSIVE: No
Immediately stops the Freezing Field
1
Crystal Clone
Shard grants new ability
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Slides in a direction, creating a crystal clone of herself in her place and disjointing incoming projectiles. If the clone takes enough damage or times out, it shatters, Frostbiting enemies in a 450 AoE around its place. The Clone can also be destroyed by Crystal Maiden's own spells.
DISTANCE: 275
CLONE DURATION: 5
CLONE HEALTH: 150
10
150
-1
Talents
+300 Crystal Nova Damage
+1s Frostbite Duration
+ 0.1 %
+50 Freezing Field Damage
+225 Attack Speed
+ 1.4 %
-4.5s Crystal Nova Cooldown
+ 0.7 %
+100 Frostbite Cast Range
+12 Intelligence
+ 1.3 %
+200 Health
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.38
- Level 10 Talent +100 Crystal Nova AoE replaced with +12 Intelligence
Strategy
Try to hit both opponents with Crystal Nova and potentially secure the range creep at the same time.
Consider skilling Frostbite on level 2 for a kill attempt with your mana regen consumables.
Frostbite does more damage to creeps. Use it to farm big neutral creeps or enemy summons.
Crystal Nova provides vision so you can use it to scout pillars for wards and Roshan pit.
Avoid showing yourself at the start of the fight. Keep distance and spam Crystal Nova, Frostbite, and use items.
Don't rush with using Freezing Field in fights unless you can support it with Glimmer Cape.
Use portals to roam around the map and set up kills with your control spells.
Remember to use Boots of Bearing to gain movespeed during Freezing Field with Aghamins Scepter.
Get Aghanims Shard at the 15 minute mark as it gives you more mobility, lockdown and wave clear.
Counter Strategy
Crystal Maiden counters heroes that don't like to be rooted such as Ember Spirit, Void Spirit and Storm Spirit. Note that Frostbite is long-lasting and has a short cooldown.
Crystal Maiden is a vulnerable hero and one of the easiest to kill during the laning phase
Play on different sides of the lane with your coleague against Crystal Maiden such that you don't get hit both by Crystal Nova
Use moments when Crystal Maiden is away from her laning partner to land a kill on her, for example when she's pulling. Keeping her on low levels means that her team won't have high levels of Arcane Aura
Look to interrupt the Crystal Maiden Freezing Field in fights. She will try to protect herself with Glimmer Cape or BKB
Crystal Maiden's level 20 attack speed talent is good against specific heroes or abilities such as Supernova, Tombstone and Will-o-Wisp
Lore
Born in a temperate realm, raised with her fiery older sister Lina, Rylai the Crystal Maiden soon found that her innate elemental affinity to ice created trouble for all those around her. Wellsprings and mountain rivers froze in moments if she stopped to rest nearby; ripening crops were bitten by frost, and fruiting orchards turned to mazes of ice and came crashing down, spoiled. When their exasperated parents packed Lina off to the equator, Rylai found herself banished to the cold northern realm of Icewrack, where she was taken in by an Ice Wizard who had carved himself a hermitage at the crown of the Blueheart Glacier. After long study, the wizard pronounced her ready for solitary practice and left her to take his place, descending into the glacier to hibernate for a thousand years. Her mastery of the Frozen Arts has only deepened since that time, and now her skills are unmatched.